SCCCLD Book Challenge

This is a fictionalization of the early life of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr. Hedy was born in Austria to wealthy Jewish parents, though th...

What drew me to this book is that the author lived in St. Louis when he wrote this book.  Mendel Rosenberg lived with his family in Lithuani...

This is the true story of a small group of downed American aviators in World War II who are hidden and guided out of Nazi occupied France by...

This is the story of  Breendonk, a small concentration camp in Antwerp, Belgium.  I had never heard of this camp in the many books I have re...

This story takes place in January 1945 in the last few months of World War II.  It tells the story of a Prussian family trying to evacuate f...

This is a story of three women, Renate Baur, Ilse von Fisher, and Ilse's daughter Ava.  The story is told from Germany in the 1930s and ...

This is a World War II story that takes place in England.  It is written with a lighter tone and humorous characters.  Mrs. Braithwaite is a...

Lale Sokolov is a young Jewish man who has been sent to Auschwitz in 1942.  Because of his fluency in several languages he is given the job ...

Josef, a young man studying medicine, and Lenka, a young art student, meet and fall in love and marry in Prague shortly before World War II....

This is an historical fiction book based on real people and events during World War II in France.  Claude Auzello is the director of the Rit...

What an intriguing book!!  We all know the story of Anne Frank.  David Gillham takes this part of history and writes a "What if ?"...

The Winter Guest is a fiction World War II story told in the present and the past.  Twin eighteen year old sisters are raising their three y...

This is a story of two women in two time periods in England.  Cara Hargraves is an apprentice antiques dealer who is recently divorced.  She...

This novel takes place in 1943 at the height of World War II in Berlin, Germany.  It tells a story of survival in a city of mostly women in ...

This book is the fictional account of the historical affair General Dwight D. Eisenhower had with an Irish woman, Kate Sommersby, while he w...

Born Survivors tells the story of three young Jewish women who gave birth around the same time in 1945.  The women did not know about each o...

This book tells the story of the last few days of Adolf Hitler's life which he spent in his Berlin bunker.  It also gives a background o...

This book is the second in a series of Tom Tyler mysteries by this author.  The story takes place in England during World War II.  Tom Tyler...

John Grisham once again delivers a riveting novel with a gripping story line and well developed characters.  Pete Banning is a decorated Wor...

Code Girls is the story of how over 10,000 American women were recruited by the U. S. Army and Navy as code breakers during World War II.  T...